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  1. EllenOlenska
    Feel like BEES?! is on point. What was a weird choice in the smaller building, with the larger will transcend taste and create its own center of aesthetic gravity. I suppose that's a traditional definition of kitsch, but, I dare everyone involved to do it.
  2. EllenOlenska
    OK, I'll come in here with the medium view. I don't entirely dislike the floor. The statuary is...a bit...well this isn't gonna be the Trevi Fountain. The mix up of curtain glass colors was...odd. But I think the proportions of the building aren't terrible, and I'm really excited to see what such a tall tower looks like here. Really excited.
  3. EllenOlenska
    I feel that. All these Austin-y towers popping up thereabouts makes 8 stories steel framed seem like a townhouse crop
  4. EllenOlenska
    The design (while clearly preliminary) is.... ... ... ...good? Like you want to look like those other cities you'll have to have some people build around them. As for Kyoto, I mean, I guess it's nice that we're comparing ourselves to Kyoto, real arriviste hours here!
  5. EllenOlenska
    I was in Houston over Christmas and was surprised by its proximity to downtown
  6. EllenOlenska
    Really goes to show you how easily the human mind is bamboozled...when I see comments on here that latch onto American car hegemony and say "Well I CERTAINLY wouldn't want to live at a place without a place to park" and I nod sagely, when IN FACT, the project is still surrounded by seas of surface parking and I have PERSONALLY rented a parking spot in a garage within two blocks of this project.
  7. EllenOlenska
    I lived very near this development, nearer to the 610. It always seemed to me that this corridor, that is the narrow band of streets running from the future train station to the already developing center of the heights, would and should densify rapidly.
  8. EllenOlenska
    I'm going to pretend you mean getting New York numbers of people in the street.
  9. EllenOlenska
    Would do! I'm thinking of quitting my job adjuncting. Then I get up there and have a panic attack.
  10. EllenOlenska
    I'm here to say Pasadena does it's best to knock down mid-century stuff too and certainly not for such density as this.
  11. EllenOlenska
    This is exciting!
  12. EllenOlenska
    I've heard some bougie things on here too, I'll tell y'all. That "building blocking my view of other building" is the season 2 episode 8 of Fraiser-est thing I've heard.
  13. EllenOlenska
    When I lived in Houston, I ran over this bridge and I could see the tower being more dramatic from that spot than even comes across in photos.
  14. EllenOlenska
    Two things: 1) its residential, that's good in itself. And 2), is that giant 1920s via 1960s tower haunting the corners of that model supposed to be a thing they're going to build? Also, no joke, I like the the little monopoly houses.
  15. EllenOlenska
    Yeah I was thinking about the BRC--as Specwriter pointed out--because something like that is the obvious answer to the question. But if the question is will TMC as an entity displace Rice U--I mean, I don't think so, how would that work? They've got two downtowns of Denver in parking lots to the south.
  16. EllenOlenska
    I'm not sure if I just like the black painted international style buildings (which I do) or because the first few renderings of the garage were so so ominous, but I'm okay with the building.
  17. EllenOlenska
    Ojala que también construyen un edificio.
  18. EllenOlenska
    I guess I'll just hope is while the city envelops the complex, the complex works toward the city from its center outward, slowly erasing the sea of parking.
  19. EllenOlenska
    Oh I need to defend that pedestrian bridge edit: there i did it
  20. EllenOlenska
    Looking at it from above it looks like an interesting piece of work, but from the street it's extremely forbidding. I had no idea you could get "into it." I thought you had to pay to go in.
  21. EllenOlenska
    That glass is wild
  22. EllenOlenska
    Maybe an enigma. A mystery wrapped in a riddle.
  23. EllenOlenska
    ah I've always said my '99 F-150 with a big dent in it from a too narrow ingress of a taqueria drive through really needs the protection of a big vault.
  24. EllenOlenska
    Downtown, the Sam & Diane of parking reg application
  25. EllenOlenska
    Folks acting like gardens don’t count
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